Sunday, January 14, 2018

Apiarian


"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,
I would call them Apiarians, and,
after the example of the bee, advise them
to extract the honey of every sect."  
- Thomas Jefferson


"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."
~George MacDonald (1824-1905)

"The secrets of the world are very marvellous,
but they are not themselves half so wonderful
as the way in which they become known to the world."
~Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)


“Happiness, not in another place but this place...
not for another hour, but this hour.”
~ Walt Whitman


"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose,
if there were no winter in our year!"
~ Thomas Wentworth

"In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
~ William Blake


"I speak to the broken halves of all our selves
and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us
equally with the best."
~J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940)

“Be like the sun, for grace and mercy.
Be like the night, to cover others' faults.
Be like running water, for generosity.
Be like death, for rage and anger.
Be like the Earth, for modesty.
Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
~Rumi

"Great art is more than a transient refreshment.
It is something which adds to the permanent richness
of the soul's self-attainment.
It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment,
and also by its discipline of the inmost being.
Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it.
It transforms the soul into the permanent realization
of values extending beyond its former self."
~Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

1 comment:

Ur-spo said...

I am listening to a podcast on the history of the freemasons. they sound quite splendid to join as you often point out.